Columns

VIEW FROM CITY HALL - VAL SHAWCROSS
27 Aug 10 - If you are under five and not yet ready to take up drinking capuccinos in your lunch hour from Ernst and Young, what exactly does life south of the river have to offer you? ..

DISABILITY & COMMUNITY CORNER - PATRICK HORAN
27 Aug 10 - This week I would like to discuss the four letter word that’s been left hanging over everyone heads by the coalition Government and that is CUTS...

VIEW FROM WESTMINSTER - TESSA JOWELL MP
19 Aug 10 - In these challenging times, Labour has to face up to the reality that we suffered our worst election defeat for many years. And yet we do so at a time which has seen a significant surge in Labour Party membership, nationally and locally...

VIEW FROM WESTMINSTER
05 Aug 10 - I LOVE summer in Britain. The first few days of the school and parliamentary holidays in our borough have been full of good things. ..

GREEN SOUTHWARK
05 Aug 10 - ALL OF Southwark’s political parties promise to protect them when in opposition, but in power they undergo a Jekyll and Hyde conversion and proceed to build on them. ..

DISABILITY CORNER
29 Jul 10 - THIS WEEK I will be talking about a few issues that affect the ward I live in, which is Livesey ward. ..

VIEW from City Hall
29 Jul 10 - CONTRART TO the popular image, people who live on boats are not necessarily wealthy yacht owners. ..
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THE DEPTFORD DIARIES
16 Jul 10 - By Al Green..

VIEW FROM WESTMINSTER
15 Jul 10 - AS PART of their first budget the Tory/Lib Dem government is raising VAT from 17.5% to 20%...

VIEW FROM WESTMINSTER
08 Jul 10 - I WANT to start this week with some sad but important tributes. ..

VIEW FROM CITY HALL
05 Jul 10 - I AM not sure where the phrase 'be careful what you wish for' came from but I will say it to Boris Johnson next time I see him at City Hall. ..

DISABILITY AND COMMUNITY CORNER
30 Jun 10 - THIS WEEK I would like to tell the readers of this column about a great family day out at the recently renamed Bermondsey & Rotherhithe Carnival, aka the Event: Southwark Park. ..

VIEW from Westminster
25 Jun 10 - THE NEWS earlier this month that free swimming for older people and for children is to be scrapped by the Coalition Government - just as the summer holidays will be starting and in a borough with the highest childhood obesity levels in the country - was bad enough. ..

DR FEMI OSONUGA
25 Jun 10 - WE ALL know what it feels like to be down. It's a common response to sad or difficult events. But if these feelings persist or get in the way of everyday life, it's time to seek help...

VIEW from Westminster
18 Jun 10 - ONE OF the saddest things I did since I wrote my last column for the Southwark News was to visit the grieving mother of Samuel Ogunro, who was brutally murdered by being shot and then left in a burnt out car on Jowett Street. ..

FLOWER POWER
18 Jun 10 - THE JUNE air is filled with perfume from the summer flowering shrubs and trees - jasmine with its spicy hypnotic fragrance; the hybrid tea roses with their sweet and complex scents, and several herbs including sage with its earthy, aromatic leaves and flowers. ..

DISABILITY & COMMUNITY CORNER
04 Jun 10 - LET ME start by thanking those people who voted for me in the recent local elections and also the people who gave freely of their time to help me...
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VIEW from Westminster
01 Jun 10 - I WAS delighted to see this week that neighbouring Lambeth Council launched its detailed proposals to enable it to become the UK's first-ever Co-operative Council. Based on the values of fairness, accountability and responsibility - it is taking forward proposals that will create a new settlement between people and their public services. ..